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  2. Hazel Johnson-Brown - Wikipedia

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    Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]

  3. Linda Richards - Wikipedia

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    Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. [1] She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.

  4. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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    1992 – Eddie Bernice Johnson is the first nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. 1993 – After reforms in 1993, nursing education in Sweden is changing from vocational training to academic education. [94] 1999 – Elnora D. Daniel is the first black nurse elected president of a major university, Chicago State University. [30]

  5. Clara Barton - Wikipedia

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    Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk.

  6. Mary Eliza Mahoney - Wikipedia

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    Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.

  7. List of nurses - Wikipedia

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    Peggy Boyd (1905–1999), one of Scotland's first air ambulance nurses; served during World War II; Jo Brand (born 1957), British nurse-turned-comedian; Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia; Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service; Vera Brittain (1893–1970 ...

  8. Lenah Higbee - Wikipedia

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    She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. Lenah Higbee became Chief Nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital in April 1909. [6] In January 1911, Higbee became the second Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. [7] For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was the first woman awarded the Navy Cross.

  9. Phyllis Mae Dailey - Wikipedia

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    Phyllis Mae Dailey (March 12, 1919 – October 31, 1976) was an American nurse and officer who became the first African American woman either to serve in the United States Navy or to become a commissioned Navy officer.